Challengers to last month's presidential preference election began making their case Monday to have the results thrown out.
The contention by lead plaintiff John Brackey is there were so many irregularities and problems with the March 22 election as to require Judge David Gass to void it.
Attorney Michael Kielsky acknowledged that minor irregularities are not grounds to overturn an election, especially if there's no reason to believe that the results would have been any different. But Kielsky said the issue here is that voters were defrauded.
"We're talking about misconduct in the conduct of this election," he said, "a disenfranchisement of potentially 100,000 people or more who were either denied the ability to cast a vote or when they attempted to cast a vote [their] provisional ballot ended up not being counted."
Dianne Post, who worked a poll in South Phoenix, detailed experiencing several instances where voters who showed up to vote in the Democrat race only to be told the records listed them as Republicans.
"I did not keep track by race. And I should have. But I didn't. But many of them were blacks who were told they were Republicans. And their response was unkind."
Testimony resumes Tuesday.